Besides lawyer + cop, what other jobs requires arguing with hostile people?

[JEDI]

I'm not very good at winning arguments against hostile people (ie: school bully, some ahole that took your parking spot that you've been waiting for, co-worker that backstabbed you to climb the politcal ladder, etc).

I figure i would learn faster if i'm immersed in it. Thus i'm looking a part time job that requires arguing w/hostile people.

So what kind of part time jobs are there that require arguing?

 

[Vette73]

Work at bestbuy. That way you can argue that they MUST buy a monster cable or their HD tv will not display HD. And without a...

You get the idea.

 

[everman]

Retail dealing with returns probably would. Telemarketing, golf caddy?

 

[KLin]

IRS auditor, loss prevention specialist, etc.

 

[Nohr]

Parking attendant.

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: KLin
IRS auditor, loss prevention specialist, etc.

loss prevention specialist?

u mean security guard?!

sorry, thats more in the line of a cop.. ie: the thief might pull a knife/gun

 

[preslove]

You don't need a job to teach it to you. Basically you need to find the line of hostility and aggression that separates legal/socially ok behavior and transgressive insanity. Then you do everything before and up to that line. You don't want to be percieved as a looney kook making empty threats, but you want to transmit to your target the impression that you will royally fvck them in any legal, acceptable way. Leave threats unsaid, but obviously insinuated. Ask threatening questions. A good question is often more threatening than any statement.

Basically hostility is an art, not a science.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Debates relating to religion.

 

[her209]

Work for a collection agency?

 

[Pegun]

"tourist information specialist"

 

[MX2]

Pimp

 

[SmoochyTX]

Originally posted by: her209
Work for a collection agency?

 

[JulesMaximus]

Pretty much any ER emplyee.

 

[KLin]

Originally posted by: JEDI

Originally posted by: KLin
IRS auditor, loss prevention specialist, etc.

loss prevention specialist?

u mean security guard?!

sorry, thats more in the line of a cop.. ie: the thief might pull a knife/gun

I'm talking about the guys that check receipts at the door before you leave CompUSSR and Worst Buy.

 

[sniperruff]

any job in NYC. you cannot believe how a lot of people in this city have NO MANNERS at all.

 

[Kalmah]

Be the guy that shuts off peoples power when they don't pay their bill.

I know somebody who does that.. he's had guns pointed at him before.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

WalMart cashier/csr

 

[sswingle]

Tech support for high speed internet company.

 

[jmcoreymv]

Service technician at Best Buy! People get pissed off at you for anything and everything (and its almost always the customers fault).

 

[Skiddex]

im a bouncer, i deal with drunk people all night and it can get pretty hairy. not much arguing though people can be real b1tches though when you take their ID

 

[Coquito]

Social Worker/Child Services
DMV

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: Kalmah
Be the guy that shuts off peoples power when they don't pay their bill.

I know somebody who does that.. he's had guns pointed at him before.

Hahaha... what about meter maids or cops who get put on traffic duty...

 

[Squisher]

Originally posted by: MX2times
Pimp

Things are hard for a pimp.

 

[isekii]

customer service

 

[Praxis1452]

oh god I'm amazing at what you describe. Hell I thrive. Whenever people start yelling at me I always win the argument. Always.